Tag: Radish

At the heart of good entertainment lies great stories. That’s why Radish, a new app for serialised fiction, designed for the mobile generation, was built. With content spanning from romance, fantasy, YA, paranormal, mystery and sci-fi, Radish provides new and established writers with a beautifully designed and relevant platform to reach and monetize audiences from where they are naturally consuming content.

Radish is back by investment from leading entertainment, tech and publishing leaders. The team includes veteran developers and designers from multi-billion-dollar gaming companies, a Harvard-educated former Kpop singer, and top web fiction writers with hundreds of thousands of followers. Radish will build an iconic multimedia entertainment company, and revolutionize how stories are produced and consumed.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experienced publishing professional with a strong eye for recognizing authors and content creators with the talent to deliver top notch storytelling for an innovative smartphone serialized reading publisher.
• Strong network of established and budding agents, publishers and/or authors, and are hip to the world of publishing.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and are a self-starter willing to think outside of the box.

Responsibilities Include:

• Finding and cultivating authors both new and seasoned with strong commercial potential
• Working closely with authors to optimize performance on platform
• Working closely with internal teams (e.g., tech, support, production, marketing) to troubleshoot on behalf of authors and to relay the needs and concerns of authors to the product team
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with literary agents, publishers and authors
• Find creative ways to expand uses and opportunities for Radish
• Monitoring and analyzing trend and sales data

If you are interested in applying, please include a resume and cover letter to jobs@radishfiction.com. When applying please specify which genre you are interested in applying for.

Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, is dedicated to young adult and middle grade books. We are committed to taking risks and exploring new ways to tell stories.

Penguin Random House is the leading adult and children’s publishing house in North America, the United Kingdom and many other regions around the world. In publishing the best books in every genre and subject for all ages, we are committed to quality, excellence in execution, and innovation throughout the entire publishing process: editorial, design, marketing, publicity, sales, production, and distribution. Our vibrant and diverse international community of nearly 250 publishing brands and imprints include Ballantine Bantam Dell, Berkley, Clarkson Potter, Crown, DK, Doubleday, Dutton, Grosset & Dunlap, Little Golden Books, Knopf, Modern Library, Pantheon, Penguin Books, Penguin Press, Penguin Random House Audio, Penguin Young Readers, Portfolio, Puffin, Putnam, Random House, Random House Children’s Books, Riverhead, Ten Speed Press, Viking, and Vintage, among others.

• Solicits, tracks and evaluates manuscripts by using originality and ingenuity that meet the goals of the Imprint
• Reads, evaluates, and develops manuscripts and proposals
• Maintains and develops relationships with authors and agents with a view to future acquisitions
• Participates in brainstorming for internally generated IP and finds authors for IP projects
• Consults with authors on market, content, style & format of publication and provides them with editorial feedback in the form of revision letters
• Maintains schedules and contractually specified length requirements
• Line and content editing of manuscripts to be published
• Reading and evaluating books published by other publishing companies for possible reprint acquisition
• Attends weekly editorial meetings to discuss incoming and existing acquisitions
• Negotiates purchase of manuscripts with authors and agents
• Writing catalog/cover copy and title information sheets to provide sales force and publicity department with descriptions of published titles
• Generates profit and loss estimates
• Collaborates with design and production on style, schedule, format, and aesthetics of publication; prepares manuscripts for production
• Works with marketing, promotions, and publicity departments to develop marketing plans for each title
• Represents individual titles in interdepartmental meetings
• Performs special projects as required.

W.W. Norton & Company is the oldest and largest publishing house owned wholly by its employees. W.W. Norton & Company strives to carry out the imperative of its founder to “publish books not for a single season, but for the years in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.”

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Employment eligibility to work with W.W. Norton & Company in the US is required.
• Must be able to work full business hours in our Manhattan office.
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communications skills.
• Strong interest in fiction and non-fiction books.
• Must be able to anticipate needs and deliver timely, relevant solutions and actions.
• Must be able to develop rapport and relationships with all levels of employees. Must be seen as knowledgeable and capable of handling sensitive, critical information.
• Must be proactive, flexible and adaptive in a rapidly changing environment and adjust with a “can-do” attitude.
• Must be self-directed and independent.
• Must have good time management skills, be organized, and be capable of multi-tasking across departments, activities, and projects.
• Must be detail-oriented, making sure that all aspects of their daily activities are handled with accuracy, with minimal mistakes.
• Mastery of email and calendar management tools, specifically Outlook.
• Proficiency in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• In-depth knowledge of social media.

The New Press publishes books that promote and enrich public discussion and understanding of the issues vital to our democracy and to a more equitable world. These books are made possible by the enthusiasm of the readers; the support of a committed group of donors, large and small; the collaboration of their many partners in the independent media and the not-for-profit sector; booksellers, who often hand-sell New Press books; librarians; and above all by their authors.

Minimum Requirements:

• College degree
• Entry level and at least 1+ year of experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite: WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint.
• Experience with Filemaker, CoreSource, and sales databases a plus.
• Experience working in a literary agency or for a book publisher in at least one of the following: subsidiary rights, sales, or marketing.
• Strong interest in book publishing and the not-for-profit sphere
• Highly organized with an attention to detail
• Good analytical skills, excellent oral and written communication and the ability to be a strong team player who enjoys working collaboratively and across departments.

Responsibilities Include:

Permissions:
• Review and negotiate permissions’ requests
• Generate and process contracts and payments
• Maintain spreadsheets for processing of licenses and receipt of payments
• Seasonal review of the grant of rights for new title releases
• Maintain and update internal spreadsheet of the grant of permissions organized by ISBN
• Seasonal upload of new releases to the CCC
• Process quarterly payments from CCC.

Subsidiary Rights:
• Provide subagents and licensors with submissions materials
• Maintain spreadsheets for submissions, contracts, and payments
• Research expiring licenses for renewal
• Assist in creation of the Frankfurt and London Book Fair guides
• Review titles for inclusion based on a review of contract rights, publication schedule in FileMaker, and availability of submissions material and write book descriptions.

Contracts:
• Generate first drafts of author and subsidiary rights contracts based on templates and the deal terms for each contract
• Maintain spreadsheets for all contracts and undertake data entry in FileMaker for author contracts.

Sales:
• Compile agenda for weekly call with distributor; sit in on call; send follow up notes to agenda after call.
• Administrative support for bulk sales.
• Edelweiss: upload DRCs and supplemental materials; assist as requested in the creation of subject specific catalogs.
• Ingram: upload TNP materials as requested.
• Keep seasonal schedules up-to-date: communicate Ingram AI and supplemental materials deadlines to Publicity and Marketing, Editorial, and the Publisher; assist in transfer of data from Filemaker to Coresource; review fields for missing data and communicate this to Editorial; create PowerPoints for pre-sales and sales conferences.
• Attend marketing and sales meetings and launch meetings as required; generate follow up notes on launch meeting and assist with follow up on needed sales materials: ARC letters, etc.
• Assist in organizing the publisher’s presence at sales conference, major trade shows, book festivals, and major international subsidiary rights fairs.
• Run basic inventory and sales reports out of the PD databases on a per request basis.
• Conduct sales and comp title research on Bookscan on a per request basis.

If you interested in applying, Send your resume and cover letter to careers@thenewpress.com; Reference “Subsidiary Rights and Sales Assistant” in the subject line.

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